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Working around WordPress 3.2.1 with a MySQL lower than 5

By Romy Cayabyab October 12, 2011 Leave a Comment

The minimum requirements to run WordPress had been announced many months ago. The requirements are PHP version 5.2.4 and MySQL version 5.0, and the minimum requirements for WordPress 3.1 which at that time was yet to roll out was PHP 4.3 and MySQL 4.1.2. To date, I don't think everyone is ready yet to drop their old PHP and MySQL versions in favour of the required higher versions. Checking on the latest postings in WP.org support forum, … [Read more...]

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How to blog at WordPress.com

By Romy Cayabyab November 11, 2009 4 Comments

Last September, I signed up for a free account at WordPress.com so I would know how it is to operate in a WP-hosted blogging environment. After seven weeks, I have written more than 20 articles mainly tutorials on how to blog at WordPress.com. Above is a screenshot of one of my more popular articles at WordPress.com. I am very pleased to note that my WP site, Working and WordPress-ing, has helped other WP bloggers with useful tips and … [Read more...]

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Using PicApp images is like picking apples

By Romy Cayabyab October 18, 2009 Leave a Comment

I am testing on this post the PicApp feature in embedding images for self-hosted WordPress blogs. I did a similar test for WordPress.com-hosted blogs yesterday, and you can view the results of that test at my Working and WordPress-ing blog. … [Read more...]

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Customizing your WordPress blog with widgets

By Romy Cayabyab October 6, 2009 2 Comments

I am surprised to see a number of my friends' blogs using the ready-to-use sectional links on the sidebar of their blogs like calendar (useless for new or not frequently updated blogs), archives, etc. when they have so much to display. Either they don't have time to explore the functionalities offered by WordPress.com to change the looks of their theme (at least on the sidebars) or they are not into experimenting. As we wrote in an earlier … [Read more...]

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Why now is the time to upgrade your WordPress install

By Romy Cayabyab September 17, 2009 Leave a Comment

Last month, we wrote Get ready now for WordPress 2.9 and beyond. If you haven't upgraded yet, then this article from the official WordPress blog site should serve another warning. The article is titled How to Keep WordPress Secure which I thought is very mildly titled considering its content. The article reported: Right now there is a worm making its way around old, unpatched versions of WordPress. This particular worm, like many before … [Read more...]

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A new design for a new feature

By Romy Cayabyab September 11, 2009 Leave a Comment

If you have been following me on this site, you'll notice that what you are seeing now may be the third or fourth looks we have had since I started this blog last December. That would mean, each design lasted only three or four months. Not that there was something wrong with the old ones. The most recent theme (see screenshot for sample page) ~ with its excellent XHTML validation ~ was one of the best themes we have used, in fact. We have not … [Read more...]

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